The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-15

MISS CAROLINE LoRtLLARD WOLFE, worth
S20,O0O,OOO, died in New York on the 4th,
aged sixty
AN unknown two-masted schooner was
lost off Nantucket, Mass, recently. The
crew were probably drowned.
AN extensive strike Of stOnemasons and
their laborers and mortar mixers took
place at Boston on the 5th. The object Of
the strike was TO obtain nine hours per day
with wages for ten hours.
THE Merchants Exchange Of San Fran
cisco recently received a dispatch stating
that the bark Eldorudo, Captain Humphrey,
from Seattle, with a cargo of coal, had
fOundered Off Cape Flattery, and all but
two Of the crew Of twelve were lost. The
vessel was 1,07G tons burden. She was
valued at 700 and was partly insured.
II was also reported that the ship St.
Stephen, from Seattle, coal laden, had been
lost She was owned in New York.
THE win of Mary II. Pelton, the sister of
the late Samuel J. Tilden, was admitted TO
probate on the 9Th The testatrix be
queathed all her property to her grand
daughter, Laura A. Pelton, wife Of w. a.
Hazard.
THE Philadelphia police have been in
structcd positively 10 see that the Sunday
and other moral reform laws are strictly
enforced.
THE Chesapeake nail works, Harrisburg,
Pa, employing about 300 men, and the
Lochiel x Paxton furnace ceased opera
tions recently until railroad and trans
portation companies reached some conclu-
sion regarding freight rates. Mill owners
said they could not continue business un-
der the Interstate act as interpreted. Sew
eral hundred men were thrown out Of en-
ployment.
FIRE in a large building in Congress
square, Boston, recently, caused SlO0,OOJ
damage TO the state printers and alike sum
to other firms.
A BILL has been passed by the Pennsylva-
mia Senate providing that the punishment
for murder in the first degree may be death
by the use OF electricity.
As NEAR as could be ascertained on the
5th the Baodo Island House stands % Re
publicaus and 20 Democrats, and the Senate
Is Republicans and 10 Democrats, with four
cities or towns to be heard from.
A DISTINCT earthquake tremor terrified
the inhabitants of Contocook, n. H., on the
9th. The vibrations came from the east and
loud dctonatious were heard like claps of
thunder.
THE lives Of about 2OJ persons were jeop-
Rrdizcd by fire which broke out at night
in the tenement house, l. Essex street, New
York, recently They were rescued by
tremen, about twenty being more or less
injured.
THE schedules in the assignment of L.
LevinsOn a. Co, New York cloth ers, show
liabilities, S295, ,4tO; nominal assets, $3.50, $50
actual assets, Sli3 439.
THG places of the workmen at Jones a
Laughhn's iron mill at Pittsburgh, Pa,
who struck a few days ago, have been filed
by new men. The locked out worlzmeu
made applications 20 be organized into an
assembly Of tho Knights OF Labor, but were
refused on account Of being on strike.
BElCKLAYERs' Unions /, g, 8, IA and 20, the
Lathers Union, the Carpenters and Joincrs
Association and the Stonemasous' Union,
all Of Brooklyn, went on a strike on the 1th.
a FOREST fire was reported raging in the
timber land west of Port Jefferson, L. L
Much Camage was done.
J. III. HART, William Kissane's lawyer,
intimates that after he gets things settled
up in New York he is going back to Cali
fornia to make things lively for his client:
enemies.
A SINGULAR accident occurred the Other
night on the Fitchburg railway at Prison
Point station, Charleston, Mass. a freight
train became dcralled and ran into switch
house where the switch hands were sleep
ing. All OF the men were injured, Law
renee O'Bricn probably fatally.
FoUR thousand two hundred and seventy
three immigrants were LANDED in Castle
Garden April s, the largest number in one
day AZ this season OF the year since Castl,
Garden was first used as "a reception plac,
TO- immigrants.